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Chengcheng

Syllables: Cheng·cheng/t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/

Chengcheng proper noun: a county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.

Proper noun

Chengcheng

  1. A county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
    • Ch’eng was located south of the modern capital of Ch’eng-ch’eng County, eastern Shensi.[1980, Cho-yun Hsu, “Farming Resources”, in Jack L. Dull, editor, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...
    • Zhaojiahe is a single-surname village, which is not unusual in this area.⁸ It is under the administration of Leijiawa township, Chengcheng county, the Weinan district of Shaanxi province (see map 5).2000, Xin Liu, In One's Own Shadow: an Ethnographic Account of the Condition of Post-reform Rural China, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 8

Forms of Chengcheng

alternative formCh'eng-ch'eng

Origin of Chengcheng

From Mandarin 澄城 (Chéngchéng).

Questions about Chengcheng

What does Chengcheng mean?
Chengcheng means a county of Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
What part of speech is Chengcheng?
Chengcheng is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Chengcheng?
Chengcheng is pronounced /t͡ʃæŋ.t͡ʃæŋ/.

Words near Chengcheng in the dictionary

  1. Cheng'an
  2. Cheng-chou
  3. Chengalpattu
  4. Chengalpet
  5. Chengbei
  6. Chengcheng
  7. Chengchow
  8. Chengcing Lake
  9. Chengde
  10. chengdeite
  11. Chengdong

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